A39658:227
The balm of the covenant applied to the bleeding wounds of afflicted saints First…
The balm of the covenant applied to the bleeding wounds of afflicted saints First composed for the relief of a pious and worthy family, mourning over the deaths of their hopeful children; and now made public for the support of all Christians, sorrowing on the same or any other account. To which is added, A sermon preached for the funeral of that excellent and religious gentleman John Upton of Lupton esq; by John Flavell, preacher of the gospel at Dartmouth in Devon.The balm of the covenant applied to the bleeding wounds of afflicted saints First composed for the relief of a pious and worthy family, mourning over the deaths of their hopeful children; and now made publick for the support of all Christians, sorrowing on the same or any other account. To which is added, A sermon preached for the funeral of that excellent and religious gentleman John Upton of Lupton esq; by John Flavell, preacher of the gospel at Dartmouth in Devon.
London: printed for J. Harris, 1688
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. For the Lamentation here made, it was extraordinary; never such cries heard before in Israel at any Funeral, whether we consider it either, 1. Extensively, 2. Intensively, or 3. Protensively.
1. Extensively, all Judah and Jerusalem, that is, City and Country mourned that day; not every Individual, but all that had any sense of the worth of the man, the good that he did, or the evils that followed upon his removal. No doubt the Priests of Baal, their Abettors, and Associates, secretly rejoiced at his fall; but all good ⟨p. 123⟩men mourned. But among all the Mourners, one only is specified by name, and that is Jeremiah the Prophet, in whom all the faithful Ministers of God were included. To them he was a true and faithful Friend; and in him they lost a Father, and a famous Instrument of Reformation.
1. Extensively, all Iudah and Ierusalem, that is, City and Country mourned that day; not every Individual, but all that had any sense of the worth of the man, the good that he did, or the evils that followed upon his removal. No doubt the Priests of Baal, their Abettors, and Associates, secretly rejoyced at his fall; but all good ⟨p. 123⟩men mourned. But among all the Mourners, one only is specified by name, and that is Ieremiah the Prophet, in whom all the faithful Ministers of God were included. To them he was a true and faithful Friend; and in him they lost a Father, and a famous Instrument of Reformation.
2. Consider it Intensively, as to the degree of the sorrow, it was a bitter Lamentation: so pungent, intense, and deep that the Mourning of the Jews for Christ, at the time of their conversion to him, is compared to this Mourning for Josiah.